In Focus: Iceland’s Membership in NATO
On 30 March, 1949, a large crowd convened behind a school in central Reykjavik. They were protesting the government's decision to join the North American Treaty Organization, then in its infancy.
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New crack in one of Greenland’s largest glaciers
The first photographs of a new and ominous crack in Greenland's enormous Petermann Glacier were captured by a NASA airborne mission Friday. NASA's Operation IceBridge, which has been flying over northwest Greenland for the past several days, took the photos after being provided coordinates by Stef Lhermitte, a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, who had spotted the oddly located chasm by examining satellite images.